.TH nics 1 "November 2013" "open-plc-utils-0.0.3" "Qualcomm Atheros Open Powerline Toolkit"

.SH NAME
nics - Host Network Interface Enumerator

.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR nics

.SH DESCRIPTION
Search host for Ethernet interfaces and display the interface index, hardware address, IP address, interface name and interface description on stdout.
This provides a simple, consistent, cross-platform format for presenting interface information to scripts and user applications.

.SH COMMENTS
This program illustrates use of basic Atheros Ethernet interface C functions.
See program \fBifs\fR for an alternative C++ implementation.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP
.RB - ? ,-- help
Print program help summary on stdout.
This option takes precedence over other options on the command line.

.TP
.RB - ! ,-- version
Print program version information on stdout.
This option takes precedence over other options on the command line.
Use this option when sending screen dumps to Intellon Technical Support so that they know exactly which version of the Linux Toolkit you are using.

.SH ARGUMENTS
None.

.SH EXAMPLES
The following example searches a \fBLinux\fR host and displays information about available interfaces.

.PP
   # nics 
   2 00:50:04:A5:D8:98 000.000.000.000 eth4 eth4
   3 00:0F:EA:4B:98:CB 192.168.172.239 eth3 eth3

.PP
The following example searches a \fBMacOSX\fR host and displays information about available interfaces.
Observe that interface names are varied.

.PP
   # nics 
   4 00:26:BB:52:DD:A8 192.168.172.149 en0 en0
   6 04:1E:64:F0:FB:EC 000.000.000.000 en1 en1

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR amp ( 1 ),
.BR ifs ( 1 ),
.BR nics ( 1 ),
.BR pcapdevs ( 1 ),
.BR plcnets ( 1 )

.SH CREDITS
 Charles Maier

